''Oasis'' is

Roberta Flack Roberta Cleopatra Flack (born February 10, 1937) is a retired American singer. She topped the Billboard Magazine, ''Billboard'' charts with the No. 1 singles "The First Time Ever I Saw Your Face", "Killing Me Softly with His Song", "Feel Like M ...

's first solo

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of newly recorded songs since 1982's '' I'm the One''. (Subsequent to her 1983

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album with

Peabo Bryson Robert Peapo "Peabo" Bryson (born April 13, 1951) is an American singer and songwriter. He is known for singing soul ballads (often as a duet with female singers) including the 1983 hit "Tonight, I Celebrate My Love" with Roberta Flack. Bryson ...

: '' Born to Love'', Flack had with producer

Ahmet Ertegun Ahmet Ertegun (, Turkish spelling: Ahmet Ertegün; ; – December 14, 2006) was a Turkish-American businessman, songwriter, record executive and philanthropist. Ertegun was the co-founder and president of Atlantic Records. He discovered and ch ...

in 1985 recorded fourteen lesser known mid-twentieth century R&B songs but the tracks, intended for a ''Miss Melody and the Uptown Harlem Stompers'' album, were not completed to the satisfaction of Flack who put the project "on hold": the tracks remain unreleased.) Released 1 November 1988, ''Oasis'' features the number-one U.S. singles, "Oasis" (R&B), and "Uh-uh Ooh-ooh Look Out (Here It Comes)" (Dance/Club Play). allmusic > Oasis > Charts & Awards > Billboard Singles/ref>

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Marcus Miller William Henry Marcus Miller Jr. (born June 14, 1959) is an American musician, songwriter, and record producer. He is best known for his work as a bassist. He has worked with trumpeter Miles Davis, pianist Herbie Hancock, singer Luther Vandros ...

, Mark Stephens) - 6:09 #"All Caught Up in Love" (

Siedah Garrett Deborah Christine "Siedah" Garrett (born June 24, 1960) is an American singer and songwriter who has written songs and performed backing vocals for many recording artists in the music industry, such as Michael Jackson, the Pointer Sisters, Brand N ...

Marvin Hamlisch Marvin Frederick Hamlisch (June 2, 1944 – August 6, 2012) was an American composer and conductor. Hamlisch was one of only seventeen people to win Emmy, Grammy, Oscar and Tony awards. This collection of all four is referred to as an " EGOT ...

) - 4:06 #"

Uh-Uh Ooh-Ooh Look Out (Here It Comes) "Uh-Uh Ooh-Ooh Look Out (Here It Comes)" is the Ashford & Simpson-penned, 1989 single by Roberta Flack. The single was the follow-up to her number one R&B hit, "Oasis". "Uh-Uh Ooh-Ooh Look Out (Here It Comes)" stalled at number thirty-seven on th ...

" ( Nickolas Ashford, Valerie Simpson) - 4:40 #"Shock to My System" ; Duet with

Simon Climie Simon Climie (born 7 April 1957) is an English songwriter/producer and the former lead singer of the UK duo Climie Fisher. Biography Climie was born in London. Beginning his career primarily as a songwriter/session musician, Climie found him ...

(Franne Golde, Andy Goldmark,

Dennis Lambert Dennis Earle Lambert (born 1947 in Brooklyn, New York) is an American musician, songwriter and record producer. Career Lambert began his music career in 1960 when he signed to Capitol Records as a recording artist. By the mid-1960s, he was w ...

) - 4:24 #"You Who Brought Me Love" (Andy Goldmark) - 4:00 #"Something Magic" (Marcus Miller, Mark Stephens) - 4:04 #"And So It Goes" (

Maya Angelou Maya Angelou ( ; born Marguerite Annie Johnson; April 4, 1928 – May 28, 2014) was an American memoirist, popular poet, and civil rights activist. She published seven autobiographies, three books of essays, several books of poetry, and ...

, Barry Miles) - 3:34 #"You Know What It's Like" (Roberta Flack, Barry Miles,

Brenda Russell Brenda Russell (née Gordon; born April 8, 1949) is an American singer-songwriter, producer, and keyboardist. Russell has a diverse musical range which encompasses R&B, pop, soul, dance, and jazz. She has received five Grammy nominations. Li ...

) - 4:45 #"And So It Goes (Reprise)" (Roberta Flack, Maya Angelou, Barry Miles) - 1:00 #"My Someone to Love" (Roberta Flack, Marcus Miller) - 5:51 #"(His Name) Brazil" (Roberta Flack, Henry Gaffney, Andy Goldmark) - 4:51

Personnel

* Roberta Flack – lead vocals, backing vocals (1, 7, 9, 10), acoustic piano (10) *

– keyboards (1, 10), bass (1, 6, 10), backing vocals (1, 6, 10), synthesizers (6) * Jason Miles – synthesizer programming (1, 4, 5, 10), keyboards (4, 5), additional synthesizer programming (6, 8) *

Michael Omartian Michael Omartian (born November 26, 1945) is an American singer-songwriter, arranger, keyboardist, and music producer. He produced number-one records in three consecutive decades. He has earned 11 Grammy Awards nominations and won three. He sp ...

– keyboards (2), drums (2), arrangements (2) *

Randy Kerber Randy Kerber (born September 25, 1958) is an American composer, orchestrator and keyboard player, who has had a prolific career in the world of cinema.SeRandy Kerberat the IMDb Kerber was born in Encino, California. He began his first national t ...

– keyboards (3, 11), synthesizers (7, 8, 9), synthesizer programming (11) *

Michael Boddicker Michael Lehmann Boddicker (born January 19, 1953) is an American film composer and session musician, specializing in electronic music. He is a three times National Academy of Recording Arts and Sciences (N.A.R.A.S.) Most Valuable Player "Synthesi ...

– synthesizers (3) * John Barnes – keyboards (4), synthesizer programming (4) * Andy Goldmark – keyboards (4, 5, 11), synthesizer programming (4, 5, 11), drum programming (4, 11), instrumental arrangements (4), drum machine (5) *

Greg Phillinganes Gregory Arthur Phillinganes (born May 12, 1956) is an American keyboardist, singer-songwriter, and musical director based in Los Angeles, California. A prolific session musician, Phillinganes has contributed the role of keyboards to numerous alb ...

– keyboards (4, 5, 11), synthesizer programming (4, 5, 11) *

J. Peter Robinson John Peter Robinson (born 16 September 1945) is an English composer, musician, and arranger known for his film and television scores. Early years and pop music career He studied piano and composition at the Royal Academy of Music and enjoy ...

– keyboards (4, 5, 11), synthesizer programming (4, 5, 11) *

Jeff Bova Jeff Bova (born Jeffrey Bova in 1953) is an American musician. He has been active in the music industry since the mid-1970s, contributing to recordings by significant mainstream artists like Celine Dion, Michael Jackson, Blondie, Eric Clapton, ...

– synthesizer programming (6) *

Barry Miles Barry Miles (born 21 February 1943) is an English author known for his participation in and writing on the subjects of the 1960s London underground and counterculture. He is the author of numerous books and his work has also regularly appeared ...

– synthesizers (7, 9), arrangements (7, 8, 9),

LinnDrum The LinnDrum, also referred to as the LM-2, is a drum machine manufactured by Linn Electronics between 1982 and 1985. About 5,000 units were sold. Its high-quality samples, flexibility and affordability made the LinnDrum popular; it sold far mo ...

(8),

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(8), electric piano (10) *

Jeff Lorber Jeffrey H. Lorber (born November 4, 1952) is an American keyboardist, composer, and record producer. After six previous nominations, Lorber won his first Grammy Award on January 28, 2018 for Best Contemporary Instrumental Album for '' Prototype' ...

– keyboards (11), synthesizer programming (11) *

Dann Huff Dann Lee Huff (born November 15, 1960) is an American record producer and songwriter. For his work as a producer in the country music genre, he has won several awards, including the ''Musician of the Year'' award in 2001, 2004, and 2016 at the Co ...

– guitar (2) *

Michael Landau Michael Christopher Landau (born June 1, 1958) is an American musician, audio engineer, and record producer. He is a session musician and guitarist who has played on many albums since the early 1980s with Boz Scaggs, Minoru Niihara, Joni Mitch ...

– guitar (3, 7, 8, 9) * Paul Jackson Jr. – guitar (4, 11) *

Earl Klugh Earl Klugh ( ; born September 16, 1953) is an American acoustic guitarist and composer. He has won one Grammy award and thirteen nominations. Klugh was awarded the “1977” Best Recording Award For Performance and Sound” for his album “Fi ...

– acoustic guitar solo (7, 9) *

Chieli Minucci Chieli Minucci (born April 17, 1958) is an American guitarist who co-founded the band Special EFX. Career His father, Ulpio Minucci, was a concert pianist and composer who wrote the music to the 1955 song " Domani." Chieli Minucci started Spe ...

– guitar (11) *

Neil Stubenhaus Neil Stubenhaus is an American bass guitarist. Career He started his musical training playing drums and switched to bass guitar at the age of 12. He studied at the Berklee College of Music where he graduated in 1975. After graduation, he was rec ...

– bass (3, 7, 9) *

Nathan East Nathan Harrell East (born December 8, 1955) is an American jazz, R&B, and rock bass player and vocalist. With more than 2,000 recordings, East is one of the most recorded bass players in the history of music. East holds a Bachelor of Arts degr ...

– bass (11) *

Harvey Mason Harvey William Mason (born February 22, 1947) is an American jazz drummer, record producer, and member of the band Fourplay. Mason, who attended Berklee in the 1960s, received an Honorary Doctorate at Berklee's 2015 Commencement Ceremony for ...

– drums (3) * Jimmy Bralower – drum overdubs (4) *

Steve Ferrone Steve Ferrone (born 25 April 1950) is an English drummer. He is known as a member of the rock band Tom Petty and the Heartbreakers from 1994 to 2017, replacing original drummer Stan Lynch, and as part of the "classic lineup" of the Average Whi ...

– drum overdubs (4) * John Robinson – drums (7, 8, 9),

Forat F16 The Forat F16 is the first 16 bit Sampler (musical instrument), digital sampler optimized for use as a "drum brain" or electronic drum module. It dynamically responds to trigger inputs from MIDI and/or audio signals. With a response time of 0.1 mi ...

(8) * Buddy Williams – drums (8),

(8) *

Steve Gadd Stephen Kendall Gadd (born April 9, 1945) is an American drummer, percussionist, and session musician. Gadd is one of the best-known and highly regarded session and studio drummers in the industry, recognized by his induction into the ''Modern D ...

– drums (10) * Steve Thornton – percussion (1, 6) * Paulinho da Costa – percussion (3, 5, 11) * Michael Fisher – percussion (7, 8, 9) *

Don Alias Charles "Don" Alias (December 25, 1939 in New York City – March 28, 2006 in New York City) was an American jazz percussionist. Alias was best known for playing congas and other hand drums. He was, however, a capable drum kit performer: for e ...

– percussion (10) *

David Sanborn David William Sanborn (born July 30, 1945) is an American alto saxophonist. Though Sanborn has worked in many genres, his solo recordings typically blend jazz with instrumental pop and R&B. He released his first solo album ''Taking Off'' in 1 ...

– alto sax solo (1) *

Larry Williams Larry Williams (born Lawrence Eugene Williams, a.k.a. Lawrence Edward Williams; May 10, 1935 – January 7, 1980) was an American rhythm and blues and rock and roll singer, songwriter, producer, and pianist from New Orleans, Louisiana. Williams ...

– saxophone solo (2), keyboards (5), synthesizer programming (5), synthesizers (7, 8, 9) *

Dan Higgins Dan Higgins (born January 28, 1957 in Boston, Massachusetts) is an American saxophone and woodwind player. He has worked with such artists as John Williams, Seth MacFarlane, Aerosmith, Stevie Wonder, Neil Diamond, Al Jarreau, Maroon 5, Kenny Loggin ...

– saxophone (3, 8) * Roger Byam – tenor sax solo (10) *

Jerry Hey Jerry Hey (born 1950) is an American trumpeter, flugelhornist, horn arranger, string arranger, orchestrator and session musician who has played on hundreds of commercial recordings, including Michael Jackson's '' Thriller'', ''Rock with You'', ...

– trumpet (3), arrangements (3, 7, 8, 9) * Dennis Collins – backing vocals (1) * Lani Groves – backing vocals (1) * Chude Mondlane – backing vocals (1) * Mark Stevens – backing vocals (1, 6) * Brenda White-King – backing vocals (1) *

Phil Perry Philip Eugene Perry (born January 12, 1952) is an American R&B singer, songwriter, musician and a former member of the soul group, The Montclairs, from 1971 to 1975. He was also known for performing the opening song to Disney’s sitcom, ''Goof ...

– backing vocals (3, 7, 8, 9) *

– lead vocals (4) *

Tawatha Agee Tawatha Agee (born November 14, 1954) is an American backing vocalist and songwriter. Her voice has been described in ''The New York Times'' as an "acrobatic, gospel-charged soprano." She was the lead singer of funk and soul band Mtume; her soulf ...

– backing vocals (6) * Yvonne Lewis – backing vocals (6) * Lori Ann Velez – backing vocals (6) *

Gabrielle Goodman Gabrielle Goodman (born 1964 in Baltimore, Maryland) is an American jazz singer, composer, author, and associate professor of voice at Berklee College of Music.Symkus, Ed. (August 1, 2007)Goodman will jazz up the Fort ''Roslindale Transcript''. ...

– backing vocals (7, 8, 9, 11) *

George Duke George M. Duke (January 12, 1946 – August 5, 2013) was an American keyboardist, composer, singer-songwriter and record producer. He worked with numerous artists as arranger, music director, writer and co-writer, record producer and as a pr ...

– backing vocals (11) * Robert Henley – backing vocals (11)

Production

* Marcus Miller – producer (1, 6, 10) * Michael Omartian – producer (2) * Jerry Hey – producer (3, 7, 8, 9) * Andy Goldmark – producer (4, 5, 11) * Barry Miles – producer (7, 8, 9) * Roberta Flack – executive producer (1, 4-11) *

Quincy Jones Quincy Delight Jones Jr. (born March 14, 1933) is an American record producer, musician, songwriter, composer, arranger, and film and television producer. His career spans 70 years in the entertainment industry with a record of 80 Grammy Award n ...

– executive producer (2, 3) * Bibi Green – production coordinator (1, 6, 10) * Scott Mabuchi – engineer (1, 6) * Bruce Miller – engineer (1, 6, 10) * David Ahlert – engineer (2) * Terry Christian – engineer (2), mixing (2) *

Mick Guzauski Nathan "Mick" Guzauski is an American multi-platinum mixing engineer and sound engineer. His work spans a wide range of styles, including jazz, R&B, Latin, rock, pop, easy listening, funk and hip hop. He won a 2002 Latin Grammy for Thalía's ...

– engineer (3), mixing (3) * David Dachinger – engineer (4, 5, 11) *

Neil Dorfsman Neil Dorfsman (born May 31, 1952) is an American sound engineer and record producer, best known for his work with Dire Straits, Bruce Hornsby, Mark Knopfler, Paul McCartney and Sting. He won Grammy Awards for Best Producer for Bruce Hornsby's ''S ...

– engineer (4) * Jay Rifkin – engineer (4) * Joe Ferla – engineer (5) * Barney Perkins – engineer (5) * Eric Calvi – engineer (7, 8, 9) * Daren Klein – engineer (7, 9) * Bob Brockmann – engineer (11) * Glen Holguin – engineer (11) * Steve Peck – engineer (11) * Eugene "UE" Nastasi – assistant engineer (1, 5, 6) * Corky Stasisk – assistant engineer (1) * Doug Carlton – assistant engineer (2) * Richard McKernan – assistant engineer (3), engineer (7, 8, 9) * Paul Angelli – assistant engineer (4) * Jack Rizzo – assistant engineer (4) * Jack Rouben – assistant engineer (4) * Richard Joseph – assistant engineer (5) * Angela Piva – assistant engineer (5) * Bridget Daly – assistant engineer (6) * Danny Mormando – assistant engineer (6) * Mike Kloster – assistant engineer (7, 8, 9) * Tom Durack – assistant engineer (10) * Ray Bardani – mixing (1, 6, 10) * Tommy Vicari – mixing (4, 5, 11) *

Bill Schnee William S. Schnee (born July 4, 1947) is an American musician, music producer, and audio engineer. Schnee has been nominated 11 times for the Best Engineered Album, Non-Classical Grammy Award and worked on a multitude of other Grammy nominated an ...

– mixing (7, 8, 9) * Debi Cornish – mix assistant (1, 10), assistant engineer (4) * Jim Dineen – mix assistant (4, 11) * Pat MacDougall – mix assistant (5) * Wade Jaynes – mix assistant (7, 8, 9) * Ryan Dorn – mix assistant (11) *

Doug Sax Doug Lionel Sax (April 26, 1936 – April 2, 2015) was an American mastering engineer from Los Angeles, California. He mastered three of The Doors' albums, including their 1967 debut; six of Pink Floyd's albums, including ''The Wall''; Ray Charles ...

– mastering * Sylvia Rhone – album coordinator * Bob Defrin – art direction, design * Tom Feelings – cover portrait ;Studios * Recorded and Mixed at

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, Marathon Studios and Skyline Studios (New York City, New York); Master Sound Astoria (Astoria, New York);

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and

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(Hollywood, California);

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(North Hollywood, California); Lighthouse Studios (Los Angeles, California); Homeland Studio (London, UK). * Mastered at The Mastering Lab (Hollywood, California).

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